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'The Walking Dead' And The Problem With Andrea

Yeah, this sums up my feelings on Andrea pretty succinctly. As much as I’ve been enjoying Season 3 of The Walking Dead, Andrea’s character is simply beyond intolerable to me.

I can’t understand why the show’s writers chose to write her character this way. Even if we need someone to make mistakes, couldn’t those mistakes be more…sympathetic?

Other irritating characters have at least some redeemable quality. Lori was unpopular with many, but you could at least empathize with her predicament.

Andrea, on the other hand doesn’t even feel like a real person to me. Ever since her ridiculous suicide threat and the way she treated Dale I’ve had it out for Andrea, but I’ve always been open to her finding some redemption.

Maybe that will come in the second half of Season 3. For now, her combination of hot-headededness, her badly misplaced arrogance, and the fact that she is simply a miserable judge of character makes every scene painful to watch.

If she were younger I might have more sympathy for her gullibility. As it stands, she should know better. She should place just a tiny ounce of trust in someone like Michonne who risked her own life to save her and care for her all winter long.

Then again, after her weird attraction to Shane in Season 2, her equally bizarre attraction to the creepy Governor is no surprise.

Will her revelation during the midseason finale finally pull the veil from her eyes, or will she continue shooting at friends?

All this rambling on my part, though? It’s just an excuse to post the above picture in the hopes you all would chuckle audibly.

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You say if she were younger but it seems to me the zombie apocalypse and the unbelievable nightmare world she is living in has caused her to mentally regress to an age where she doesn’t know better. She’s still a functional adult but emotionally she’s an early teen if not younger. I’m probably wrong but Andrea is acting like a teenage girl who has serious daddy issues and jumps in bed with any authoritative male who’ll let her. Trying to sexually cling to anything solid that makes the world she is living in seem more safe. That picture looks like a young girl who’s just found out the person she trusted isn’t who she thought they were.

Andrea is fulfilling the role of the blessed idiot. The person who should be long dead but isn’t due to what can only be called divine intervention. As such I enjoy hating her and I consider her place in the show to be actually quite vital so we don’t have a cast made up of socio-paths and bad-asses.

I think you’re right, and I think for me it just doesn’t work. She doesn’t pull it off, maybe, or the character just rubs me the wrong way, well past the point of enjoyment. Besides, they’re not all socio-paths and badasses. Glenn and Maggie are pretty normal really.

That they’re extremely competent and brave (and badass in that sense) is beyond question; however, I think there’s an earnestness about Glenn in particular that makes him at once less badass in the traditional sense and more badass because of it.

How is Andrea a good shot? The only thing she shoots in the entire series is Darryl. Besides that all she does is whine and whine and whine. She is the opposite of a badass. It makes no sense that she is still alive, I am sure that anyone would agree to cut out her entrails after an hour in her company.

As much as i hate being “that guy,” the Andrea in the comics is a much more fulfilling character than the TV show one. She still has a sort of sexual vulnerability, but she is by no means a victim. She consistently pulls her weight, and shows good judgement. The Andrea from the TV show is a complete 180. Pathetically bad at judgement, bad at combat, bad at everything despite the fact she thinks she’s number one in all categories. I love comic Andrea, however TV Andrea is my least favorite character in the entire franchise.

There is an Australian singer Jimmy Barnes who years ago wrote the song Khe Sahn. A few lines of the song remind me of Andrea.

“And their legs were often open but their minds were always closed And their hearts were held in fast surburban chains.”

Andrea sees a chance to live in a seemingly safe “suburbia” and instead of using the bare essentials of common sense chooses the life of “ignorance is bliss” which makes her a cliche of a woman who always chooses the dangerous/abusive boyfriend. Sadly it’s a trait found with more than a few wome…………i’d better stop there.